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== Film ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' is also mostly like this: [[Artificial Limbs]] are considered vulgar, and [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|Sith Alchemy is worse than planetbusting.]] Villains like Darth Vader and Grievous use cybernetics that make them more dangerous in physical combat, but only [[We Can Rebuild Him|after suffering crippling injuries]]. Good guys like Luke Skywalker only use replacement cybernetics that are somewhat more effective than the original body parts were, when it comes up at all. Clone troopers can be mass-produced, but are still only on the level of well-trained regular soldiers, instead of being enhanced to Warhammer 40000 Space Marine levels or anything in that vein. Some expanded universe media feature cyborgs and genetic engineering, but still it seems less prominent than the general technology level and the obvious utility of such enhancements would suggest. [[Feudal Future|Princesses abound, but they're elected. While still teenagers.]]
** One minor example of a transhuman character in the films is Lando Calrisian's majordomo Lobot, a man with (rather clunky-looking) cybernetic brain implants. His implant basically turns him into that guy you know who's always on his mobile {{
*** It is explained in the EU that Lobot’s cyber-enhancement was actually an alternative sentence – originally a behavioral reconfiguarator on account of him in his youth being convicted of stealing.
** There's mention of cyborgs suffering various degrees of [[Fantastic Racism]], whether from outside or only to themselves, like Ton Phanan, whose [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Ate His Future]]. Oddly enough most of the good guys cover their [[Artificial Limbs]] with synthflesh, and Phanan didn't.
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